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Wilfred Thesiger
Across the Empty Quarter
• Wilfred Thesiger
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 96 PAGES
Intrepid British explorer Thesiger (Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs) trekked across Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter -- one of the last unmapped regions of the earth -- to prove to the world and himself that he could. This is the heroic tale of his 650-mile journey across the desert with the Bedu who guided him.
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Among the Mountains, Travels through Asia
• Wilfred Thesiger
EXPLORATION •
2001 •
PAPER
• 174 PAGES
A classic account of intrepid British explorer Wilfred Thesiger's travels through the mountain ranges of Iraqi Kurdistan, the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, and Ladakh. Half of the book is devoted to Thesiger's journeys through Hazarajat and Nuristan in Afghanistan. Drawn from the author's diaries, 1952-1956. With 80 photographs by Thesiger. Each chapter opens with a useful relief map of his route.
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Arabian Sands
• Wilfred Thesiger
EXPLORATION •
2007 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
• FAVORITE
The last of the great British traveler-explorers, Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003) journeyed among the nomadic camel-breeding peoples of Southern Arabia in the late 1940s, falling in love with the desert and ways of life of the Bedouin. This eloquent book, a Longitude favorite, is his tribute to vanished traditions.
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The Marsh Arabs
• Wilfred Thesiger
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Thesiger's masterful account of the distinctive customs, traditions and way of life of the Ma'dan, a once isolated, ancient people of the watery marsh and reeds of Southern Iraq.
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